Facebook Messenger now lets you make video calls

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NEW YORK — Facebook now lets you make video calls within its messaging app, Messenger. People on iOS and Android devices can start a video chat with friends by tapping on the video camera icon on the top right corner of a message thread.

The feature is also available for the desktop version of Messenger, which Facebook recently launched. Mobile-to-desktop video calling (or the other way around) will be launched at a later date.